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  • She had made inscriptions on the wall by the closet, feet and inches to measure a child's growing height.†   (source)
  • On the back, he had scribbled an inscription: "Don't let 'em clip your wings."†   (source)
  • There was an inscription carved around the top: Erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi.†   (source)
  • $25 REWARD for the return of a gold railroad watch inscribed: To Ezra Ford in appreciation of thirty years' service to the Milwaukee Road.†   (source)
  • He knelt and read the inscription: In Loving Memory Winifred Foster Jackson Dear Wife Dear Mother 1870-1948†   (source)
  • No triumphal inscriptions however, no bas-reliefs of chained enemies kneeling.†   (source)
  • POISON Below that, in broad green script, the words "Copper protected!" were inscribed.†   (source)
  • She pointed to the already inscribed pages on the table.†   (source)
  • It had an inscription he could not make out.†   (source)
  • She recalled the inscription "Arbeit Macht Frei" from a report she had read on the concentration camps.†   (source)
  • While I'd slept, she'd deciphered the inscription on the Copper Key.†   (source)
  • A small, quiet neighbourhood with Arabic writing and crescent moons inscribed on the facades of the houses.†   (source)
  • The celebrated sketch consisted of a perfect circle in which was inscribed a nude male… his arms and legs outstretched in a naked spread eagle.†   (source)
  • Bod had copied down their inscription and now he was only thinking about the beetle when somebody said, "Boy?†   (source)
  • Aiken's name was inscribed on the bench, along with the words.†   (source)
  • I didn't have a chance personally to say good-bye to Schindler, but I joined with all the other workers in presenting him with a ring, made from a prisoner's gold tooth, which bore an inscription in Hebrew from the Talmud: "He who saves a life saves the world entire."†   (source)
  • Knowing how the story always went, Celaena lifted the candle to the arches above the portals, looking for any inscriptions regarding the sure death that would meet her if she walked beneath a specific arch.†   (source)
  • There's a symbol here, something inscribed underneath all the dirt and pebbles.†   (source)
  • I mean, before he knew he was signing up—even then he had written his name in that way you see names inscribed on graves.†   (source)
  • The cadets inscribe the words into their composition books.†   (source)
  • In one of the books he learned that the most important text in the literature of alchemy contained only a few lines, and had been inscribed on the surface of an emerald.†   (source)
  • Their luxury was teatime, between four and five, when they took down from the wooden slatted shelves their miniature brown teapots inscribed with their names and sat together in a little dayroom off the ward.†   (source)
  • Baba was reciting a long poem he had deciphered from ancient stone inscriptions.†   (source)
  • Sure enough, the title page bore an inscription in my grandfather's shaky handwriting.†   (source)
  • On the back, surrounded by the words waterproof antimagnetic, and shock-protected, her married initials, A.G., are inscribed.†   (source)
  • The inscription said this: ELIZA WIFE OF J.R. PLEASANT JUL 12, 1888 OCTOBER 28, 1924 GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN Until I read those dates, I hadn't done the math: Henrietta was barely four years old when she lost her mother, about the same age Sonny was when Henrietta died.†   (source)
  • Inscribed inside the locket on the side opposite the photo it says, "My ray of Hope."†   (source)
  • The inscription said something like IVLIVS.†   (source)
  • After lying wide-eyed for several moments, staring at the ceiling, I climbed down and retrieved the ring from the pocket of my school jacket and held it up to the light to look at the inscription.†   (source)
  • They are covered with a single four-letter word that has been inscribed over and over, on every available surface.†   (source)
  • A duplicate of the black symbol was inscribed on the metal.†   (source)
  • They say he's got fat peacocks strutting around in a courtyard, protected by high walls, pecking up grain from silver plates inscribed with Moorish designs.†   (source)
  • My fingers grazed the cool brass, felt the markings of my father's inscription.†   (source)
  • Near the west end of town, near the shattered remnants of a structure still bearing the inscribed lintel of Poets" Amphitheatre, something stood waiting.†   (source)
  • But any doubt that the Briarcrest Christian School served up the sort of education Betty Boo had in mind was allayed by the sight of the passage from the Book of Matthew inscribed on the outside of the main building: With men this is impossible; with God all things are possible.†   (source)
  • Every word of that poem was inscribed for him.†   (source)
  • It was an inscription in Cass's loopy script, my name big, the message little.†   (source)
  • That same year Sullivan inscribed a set of drawings, "To Daniel H. Burnham, with the best wishes of his friend Louis H. Sullivan."†   (source)
  • He turned the tablet on its side to reveal that it had been inscribed with Mae's full name: MAEBELLINE RENNER HOLLAND.†   (source)
  • Chipper had, after all, eaten the family Bible the winter before, chewed right through it from Genesis to Revelation, shredding generations of inscribed Hickams in the process.†   (source)
  • But in the last century or so, as actual Babylonian ziggurats have been excavated, astrological diagrams-pictures of the heavens-have been found inscribed into their tops.†   (source)
  • Other than the dates of her birth and death, the only inscription was: LOVED BY MANY.†   (source)
  • From the character and turn of the inscription "Also Georgiana Wife of the Above" I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly.†   (source)
  • His oar (with his teammates' names inscribed in gold) hung from iron hoops on the factory wall.†   (source)
  • He dipped his hand in the sticky black mud again and was inscribing three wavy lines on her forehead when she suddenly opened her bright green eyes.†   (source)
  • There was a date inscribed on the base, 1234, and words inscribed around it: nephilim: facilis descensus averni.†   (source)
  • I read his inscription again, cried a bit, and promised him that I would do my best.†   (source)
  • Desperate to infect her with his own madness, he sent her miniaturist's verses inscribed with the point of a pin on camellia petals.†   (source)
  • Again, she faced the wheel-locked inner door, seeing now a faint inscription etched in the metal above the handle.†   (source)
  • It was naturally shaped like a heart, and he took it to a stone carver who inscribed "Nelly" into its surface.†   (source)
  • Like most people, Horace felt the need not merely to know but to envision clearly whatever had happened; furthermore it was his obligation to envision it clearly so that in the official register of Island County deaths the truth, however painful, might be permanently inscribed.†   (source)
  • Over the entrance to the temple at Delphi was a famous inscription: KNOW THYSELF!†   (source)
  • He tipped the box over and found an inscription etched into the bottom.†   (source)
  • He inscribed her copy of The Comedians, "To Ophelia, who knows the real Haiti."†   (source)
  • I knew that the man who inscribed it had foreseen these ruins and did not want his masonry identified with the wrong era.†   (source)
  • Of course the inscriptions were usually in Greek which I couldn't read, but I believed him.†   (source)
  • I'd inscribed her name with a steadiness that had long since vanished, and once again, I was reminded of my age.†   (source)
  • There are names inscribed on the bronze panels, dozens of names.†   (source)
  • Dewey looked at the gray stone inscribed with four names, and the date of their death: November 15, 1959.†   (source)
  • Back home, it occurred to Palmer that since he now could read quite well, he should have another look at the inscription on the golden pigeon statue in the den.†   (source)
  • He showered me with books for all occasions, each inscribed with a personal proclamation of his affection.†   (source)
  • They reached the first of a labyrinthine series of rooms, shifting and crackling with groups of people, with bright paintings above and around them, and stretching into the far distance, like tombstones with unreadable inscriptions.†   (source)
  • The inscription reads, "In confidence we lay our cause before the whole world.†   (source)
  • It had already been officially inscribed, and nothing could be done.†   (source)
  • If he fell or jumped and couldn't finally swim to safety, they would find these things: a watch with his father's name inscribed on the back, his wallet with $200 in cash, his driver's license, a pebble from the stream near his childhood home that he had carried with him for thirty years.†   (source)
  • I picked the pencil out of his palm and was glad it had been sharpened to a stub so he couldn't see my name in gold letters inscribed on the side.†   (source)
  • There was space for a small picture and, on the opposite side, an inscription in French.†   (source)
  • Ryan saw that words were painted on the tubes, with other inscriptions forged onto the metal itself.†   (source)
  • A number of people wore T-shirts inscribed Long Tall Sally.†   (source)
  • His beloved espresso machine and the inscribed paddle from Team TWO.†   (source)
  • In October 1829 that Franklin had a son, George, who eventually purchased the Holy Bible that still remains in the family, with all those English names inscribed.†   (source)
  • MY BROTHER BELIEVES IN GOD When he was nine and a half, he found a little red volume called The Book of Jewish Thoughts inscribed to our father, David Singer, on the occasion of his Bar Mitzvah.†   (source)
  • I can see the inscription on your tombstone already: "I saved a dollar, here I lie."†   (source)
  • 'What does the writing say?' asked Frodo, who was trying to decipher the inscription on the arch.†   (source)
  • "Perhaps the inscription is a magical instruction," said Charles.†   (source)
  • It was inscribed with the words You can't tell which way the train went by looking at the tracks.†   (source)
  • I pushed on the spring, and the cameo front opened to reveal a tiny inscription.†   (source)
  • Furious, he read the inscription again and swore under his breath.†   (source)
  • The inscription he chose to go under his father's name on the gravestone read: HE WANTED THEKINGDOM OF GOD ON EARTH.†   (source)
  • She knew his name was Thomas Stone because it was inscribed inside the surgical textbook he'd placed at his bedside.†   (source)
  • The shirt had an inscription in white schizoid letters: I've gone to find myself.†   (source)
  • One exterior wall adjacent to the portico was unveiled to reveal an inscription of the boys' names and victories carved into the stone for posterity.†   (source)
  • A shallow bowl inscribed around its gilt edge in a language Strigan couldn't possibly have read.†   (source)
  • I looked into a small office, containing a flat-top desk with a telephone, a typewriter on its table, a bookcase with shelves of books and pamphlets, and a huge map of the world inscribed with ancient nautical signs and a heroic figure of Columbus to one side.†   (source)
  • It had contained a camera, a telephoto lens, a small Olympus pocket tape recorder, a leather-bound photograph album, and a little box with a necklace and a gold ring inscribed TILDA AND JACOB BJURMAN APRIL 23, 1951.†   (source)
  • "God save the Congress, Liberty, and Adams," an illuminated inscription proclaimed.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, if I could escape from tinder my stepmother's eye, I would linger in the churchyard, trying to copy the forms of the letters inscribed upon the tombstones.†   (source)
  • Breezes from the sluggish river seem to inscribe her skin with metal tips.†   (source)
  • Rachel looked at it dully, reading the inscription on the outside.†   (source)
  • Looking down at the frayed parchment, he saw that the pledge had already been inscribed in black script.†   (source)
  • The knight glanced at the inscriptions.†   (source)
  • When Billy Pilgrim's name was inscribed in the ledger of the prison camp, he was given a number.†   (source)
  • "I promise you, gentlemen, that before this sale is ended each one of you will have the number 'fifty' inscribed in that final box, signifying that you have done your part for Trinity …."†   (source)
  • Unbeknownst to most Americans, JFK has a habit of collecting scrimshaw and often bids anonymously for these pieces of inscribed whale's teeth.†   (source)
  • The window displayed a pyramid of slabs in brownish-purple jackets, inscribed: The Vulture Is Molting.†   (source)
  • Heturned it over and over again; his fingers studied its contours, his eyes strained to read the Latin inscription in the South Carolina seal.†   (source)
  • There was some sort of inscription engraved around the stone, but it was written in no language Mark had ever seen before.†   (source)
  • I run my fingers over the inscription beneath it: The Key Holds the Truth.†   (source)
  • Outside, a young reporter and her cameraman were waiting on the sidewalk, ready to capture a provocative scene, but all they got were pictures of the workers exiting the district office carrying John-inscribed pennants and bumper stickers, oven mitts and disposable lighters.†   (source)
  • He folded the knapsacks and stashed them on a shelf, made the bed (a cot under the wall of inscriptions), and got things ready in case the Austrians were bold enough to attack at night, which he thought even more unlikely than that they would attack in the day.†   (source)
  • At night a tremendous mass meeting was held in the Auditorium, where a bronze tablet which had been inscribed to her memory was unveiled.†   (source)
  • I inscribed it: You make me feel gold, flowing too.†   (source)
  • Over the library of one of our great law schools is inscribed the motto, "Not under man but under God and law."†   (source)
  • He had completed inscribing the circle that same day.†   (source)
  • Several illegal invitations and anatomically doubtful suggestions were inscribed.†   (source)
  • First, he had the laws inscribed (carved) on a huge slab of stone.†   (source)
  • I looked down at the inscription etched into the shiny, deep purple—stained concrete headstone.†   (source)
  • He read the inscriptions on monuments.†   (source)
  • Would then proceed at a KCUF record hop to look out again across the gleaming gym floor and there in one of the giant keyholes inscribed for basketball see, groping her vertical backstroke a little awkward opposite any boy heels might make her an inch taller than, a Sharon, Linda or Michele, seventeen and what is known as a hip one, whose velveted eyes ultimately, statistically would meet Mucho's and respond, and the thing would develop then groovy as it could when you found you…†   (source)
  • The ashtrays (Leslie later elaborated) were of the type everyone was familiar with: usually black, circular, and stamped with such inscriptions as STORK CLUB, "2 I", EL MOROCCO or, in more plebeian settings, BETTY'S PLACE and JOE'S BAR.†   (source)
  • It was my father who gave me the first dictionary of my own, a Webster's Collegiate, inscribed on the flyleaf with my full name (he always included Alice, my middle name, after his mother) and the date, 1925.†   (source)
  • VLADIMIR: (looking wildly about him, as though the date was inscribed in the landscape).†   (source)
  • This was when they were all standing looking at the inscription.†   (source)
  • She spotted the inscription.†   (source)
  • Then he had lain by her side, and Kamala's face had been close to him, and under her eyes and next to the corners of her mouth he had, as clearly as never before, read a fearful inscription, an inscription of small lines, of slight grooves, an inscription reminiscent of autumn and old age, just as Siddhartha himself, who was only in his forties, had already noticed, here and there, gray hairs among his black ones.†   (source)
  • Meteors broke fire above his head, and comets inscribed blazing arcs upon a vault of black glass.†   (source)
  • One showed a bearded gentleman in a frock coat, holding up a bottle, and beneath his feet was the inscription, "I have been made regular by this marvelous discovery!"†   (source)
  • He had seen him, heard his words, and read the threatening inscription on the board.†   (source)
  • There, upon a low black hill, stood the House, its cornerstone bearing the inscription 2005 A.D. Mr. Bigelow, the architect, said, "It's completed.†   (source)
  • These Seven Commandments would now be inscribed on the wall; they would form an unalterable law by which all the animals on Animal Farm must live for ever after.   (source)
    inscribed = formally written
  • The inscription on the title-page ran: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM by Emmanuel Goldstein   (source)
    inscription = to write; or something written
  • But he lingered for some minutes more, talking to the old man, whose name, he discovered, was not Weeks-as one might have gathered from the inscription over the shop-front — but Charrington.   (source)
  • Jim's GOT to do his inscription and coat of arms.   (source)
    inscription = words written on something's surface
  • We got to have a rock for the coat of arms and mournful inscriptions, and we can kill two birds with that same rock.   (source)
  • Making them pens was a distressid tough job, and so was the saw; and Jim allowed the inscription was going to be the toughest of all.   (source)
  • Then pretty soon he says: "Come to think, the logs ain't a-going to do; they don't have log walls in a dungeon: we got to dig the inscriptions into a rock."   (source)
  • …on top of all the other work he had to do on pens, and inscriptions, and journals, and things, which made it more trouble and worry and responsibility to be a prisoner than anything he ever undertook, that Tom most lost all patience with him;   (source)
  • And we had to steal candles, and the sheet, and the shirt, and your dress, and spoons, and tin plates, and case-knives, and the warming-pan, and the grindstone, and flour, and just no end of things, and you can't think what work it was to make the saws, and pens, and inscriptions, and one thing or another, and you can't think HALF the fun it was.   (source)
  • The shirt was sent in early, in a pie, and every time a rat bit Jim he would get up and write a little in his journal whilst the ink was fresh; the pens was made, the inscriptions and so on was all carved on the grindstone; the bed-leg was sawed in two, and we had et up the sawdust, and it give us a most amazing stomach-ache.   (source)
  • Still, the bold and immodest inscription over the entrance assured him they were in the right spot.†   (source)
  • "It's a masterly work of bronze," Mr. Tang continued, "but there's also the inscription itself.†   (source)
  • In the middle was an inscription carved in letters even older than Greek, a language of magic.†   (source)
  • Tell me-has the inscription on this clay envelope been translated?†   (source)
  • I opened it to the first page and read the inscription Ben had made more than three years ago.†   (source)
  • I'd say he's hoping to find the Lost Word and inscribe it on his body."†   (source)
  • All he could think of was the keystone, the inscription, and whether it would all lead to the Grail.†   (source)
  • Underneath the inscription, which he has never before seen, is his birthday, and the year, 1982.†   (source)
  • "West Ponente," Vittoria said, reading the inscription on the stone.†   (source)
  • Miss Harty brushed the debris away, and an inscription emerged: JOHN HERNDON MERCER (JOHNNY).†   (source)
  • Langdon pulled Peter's ring from his pocket and read the inscription.†   (source)
  • I opened it to Ben's inscription and smiled.†   (source)
  • The glowing words were materializing just beneath the engraved inscription on the capstone.†   (source)
  • Sato ran her finger over the inscription.†   (source)
  • Beneath the inscription, Mal'akh now saw something that stunned him.†   (source)
  • Allegedly, this inscription, whatever it said, would bring order from this chaos.†   (source)
  • The capstone, I suspect, has an inscription as well, which tells you how to decipher the pyramid.†   (source)
  • But regardless, you alone have the power to read that inscription.†   (source)
  • The inscription reminds us that Shadowhunters are the Angel's weapons.†   (source)
  • Sadie squinted at the hieroglyphic inscription.†   (source)
  • Carved over the door was a Portuguese inscription.†   (source)
  • Over the doors was written an inscription in Latin that made her wish she had her notes with her.†   (source)
  • Dawson moved aside, making room as Marilyn focused on the inscription.†   (source)
  • Looking carefully, she noticed an inscription carved into the railing.†   (source)
  • But what's this inscription, AOE—Area Of Effect?"†   (source)
  • There is an inscription on the back—see?†   (source)
  • "She must have," said Jack, blinking at the inscription.†   (source)
  • There was an inscription high on the lustrous tile of its front wall: "Roger Marsh.†   (source)
  • "That inscription should read, 'Died at the hands of a surgeon.†   (source)
  • A return after long wanderingswas the inscription adorning the stone above Franz's grave.†   (source)
  • The son pulled a book off the shelf and wrote an inscription in it: "To Betty.†   (source)
  • The face of the black granite did, however, contain an inscription.†   (source)
  • Samirah edged a little closer to the inscription.†   (source)
  • It had an inscription in a language I didn't understand, but recognized from The Book of Moons.†   (source)
  • Let him read the inscription, and understand my precious words.†   (source)
  • Her eyes glanced at the inscription on his chest.†   (source)
  • An inscription readinga return after long wanderings.†   (source)
  • "The inscription will explain his case to him," Hammurabi continued.†   (source)
  • "His oath?" she asked, startled, thinking of the inscription on the temple of Atlantis.†   (source)
  • There was writing on the first page, a scrawled inscription: Dear Alec….†   (source)
  • Sam squinted at the inscription on the floor.†   (source)
  • "Dagny Taggart" was still the inscription on the frosted glass panel of the door to her office.†   (source)
  • An inscription readinghe wanted the kingdom of god on earth.†   (source)
  • The inscription reminds us that Shadowhunters are the Angel's weapons.†   (source)
  • My father used to say you could tell a great weapon if it had either a name or an inscription.†   (source)
  • The medallion was gold, stamped with a wolf's paw and the Latin inscription Beati Bellicosi.†   (source)
  • It bore the inscription: "Moreau & Vetchinkin.†   (source)
  • This inscription appears to be a code of some sort, and considering your reputation, it seems obvious to me that you were brought here to decipher it.†   (source)
  • For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.†   (source)
  • And the sword," said Ron finally, when they had at last aban-doned their attempts to divine meaning in the Snitch's inscription.†   (source)
  • But even in the bright moonlight, it was still too dark for me to make out the inscription on the headstone.†   (source)
  • Why does it seem so significant to me that the wall is plain —no tapestry or hunting horns, no stage decoration —and that he took such care to inscribe his name and the year with such prominence, since he can hardly have known (or did he?†   (source)
  • The words of the inscription were a plea to those leaving Arrakis, but they fell with dark import on the eyes of a boy who had just escaped a close brush with death.†   (source)
  • What I was feeling was new for me, a bubbling up of anger, mixed with so many images from the last two weeks: my mother weeping; my father running his hand over his head, closing his eyes; Cass's name doodled on the back of that envelope; her inscription to me in blue ink: See you there.†   (source)
  • Under the name were the dates—the correct dates of his birth, and of his death—and under the dates was the simple Latin inscription that meant "forever."†   (source)
  • I heard you say his name, and I read the inscription you put on his grave, but I must know for certain, Was that he?†   (source)
  • Millard searched through the gravel until he found a sharpened stone, and, using another stone as a hammer, he chipped an inscription of his own below the others.†   (source)
  • I needed to sprinkle these ashes, I said, and to see to the inscription on the monumental Chase family cube.†   (source)
  • As Paul repeated the familiar inscription, his daughter activated the mechanism and gave a cry of pleasure as the little bird sprang out twittering.†   (source)
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